10 Dreamy Green Bedroom Designs In colors ranging from lime to mint, see pictures of 10 of our favorite green living room designs. Sea-Grass Green Living RoomSea-Grass Green Living RoomFor the living room of her East Hampton, New York cottage, House Beautiful contributing editor Frances Schultz chose a palette of sea-grass greens. Tom Samet, a decorator and friend, suggested adding an extra inner panel to beef up the curtains. Sofa in striped cotton by Kravet. Light Green Living RoomLight Green Living Room"I tried to use some serious furniture shapes and a few antiques in the living room of this house, but I wanted to have fun with the fabrics and color," designer Ashley Whittaker says of this Long Island home. A custom sofa is covered in a Brunschwig & Fils avocado linen. The painting above the sofa is by Sally Michel. Slipper chairs are covered in Vizcaya in Celery by AM Collections. Before & After: A One-Day Living Room MakeoverHillary Clinton walks back 'basket of deplorables' remark

The Senator and the Mogul: A 9/11 Diary Republicans rave about Tim Kaine ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’ Don’t Worry, America: The 3 A.M. Phone Call Is a Myth 5 numbers that mattered this week Obama, the puppet master President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated. Instead, the mastery mostly flows from a White House that has taken old tricks for shaping coverage (staged leaks, friendly interviews) and put them on steroids using new ones (social media, content creation, precision targeting). And it’s an equal opportunity strategy: Media across the ideological spectrum are left scrambling for access. ( PHOTOS: Obama, the puppet master) The results are transformational. With more technology, and fewer resources at many media companies, the balance of power between the White House and press has tipped unmistakably toward the government.

This is an arguably dangerous development, and one that the Obama White House — fluent in digital media and no fan of the mainstream press — has exploited cleverly and ruthlessly. And future presidents from both parties will undoubtedly copy and expand on this approach. “The balance of power used to be much more in favor of the mainstream press,” said Mike McCurry, who was press secretary to President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Nowadays, he said, “The White House gets away with stuff I would never have dreamed of doing. When I talk to White House reporters now, they say it’s really tough to do business with people who don’t see the need to be cooperative.” ( Also on POLITICO: W.H. press corps: 'Extreme frustration' over 'having absolutely no access') McCurry and his colleagues in the Clinton White House were hardly above putting their boss in front of gentle questions: Clinton and Vice President Al Gore often preferred the safety of “Larry King Live” to the rhetorical combat of the briefing room.

But Obama and his aides have raised it to an art form: The president has shut down interviews with many of the White House reporters who know the most and ask the toughest questions. Car Seat Bottom Cushion CoverInstead, he spends way more time talking directly to voters via friendly shows and media personalities. Hotel Linen Trade ShowsWhy bother with The New York Times beat reporter when Obama can go on “The View”?Knight Window Cleaning At the same time, this White House has greatly curtailed impromptu moments where reporters can ask tough questions after a staged event — or snap a picture of the president that was not shot by government-paid photographers. ( Also on POLITICO: Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game') The frustrated Obama press corps neared rebellion this past holiday weekend when reporters and photographers were not even allowed onto the Floridian National GolfClub, where Obama was golfing.

That breached the tradition of the pool “holding” in the clubhouse and often covering — and even questioning — the president on the first and last holes. Obama boasted Thursday during a Google+ Hangout from the White House: “This is the most transparent administration in history.” The people who cover him day to day see it very differently. “The way the president’s availability to the press has shrunk in the last two years is a disgrace,” said ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton, who has covered every president back to Gerald R. Ford. “The president’s day-to-day policy development — on immigration, on guns — is almost totally opaque to the reporters trying to do a responsible job of covering it. There are no readouts from big meetings he has with people from the outside, and many of them aren’t even on his schedule. This is different from every president I covered. This White House goes to extreme lengths to keep the press away.”MUST WATCHStory highlightsIllinois school district could lose Title IX fundingThe district has 30 days to reach a settlement In 2013, a Colorado court was the first to clearly rule that transgender people must be treated equally.

The family of a transgender first-grader went to court after their school district stop allowing their daughter to use the girl's bathroom because she was born a boy. The ruling said such bans create a hostile, intimidating or offensive environment. That same year, California became the first state to allow transgender students to choose which bathrooms and locker rooms to use. The high cost of being transgenderBathroom access for transgender teen divides Missouri townContent by LendingTree Paid Partner Content June 7, 2010Here is yet another first for the “historic President.” One thing that few people noticed while Obama gave his press conference at the White House last week was missing. Progressive liberal’s can’t use the excuse of “lack of time in planning” because this press conference was known about nearly a week before it occured. Look at this picturefrom AIPNEWSBehind him was just yellow curtains, and a couple of gold columns with chandeliers, but no American flag!

A poster at Free Republic researched and looked at all photos of many press conferences (not press briefings) of past presidents. What the poster found was Obama is the only President to not have an American Flag or flags standing proudly behind or off to the side.So, maybe there was another motive for the flags absence. We know Obama (or his handlers) carefully choreograph his image, his appearances… It’s why he’s so teleprompter-dependent. Surely he and his advisers know that flag issues have been a lightning rod — even before he was elected. I think this was deliberate. Could it be that Obama really is ashamed of America? Could it be that he thinks he is the citizen of the world which has no flag? Ladies and gentlemen this is very disturbing coming from the office of the Presidency. This is not normal to not have the symbol of the United States and its government in the east room of the White House and it is not very Presidential either. Many patriotic brave men and women have died under the stars and stripes called old glory.